Poetry of Wild Presences: a day of mindful meditation and wildly writing poems with birds, dragonflies, Todd Robinson and frogs. Sunday 21 July, Fremont County, Iowa. Everyone is welcome for a day of rugged woods-play and sticky mysteries.  Contact Jack Phillips at thenaturalistschool@gmail.com . $25 donation requested.

Frogfruit (Lippia lanceolata) and saffron-winged meadowhawk (Sympetrum costiferum) , July 7th on a sacred bluff above the Kickatuus in Saunders County, Nebraska. Photos by Neal Ratzlaff (top) and Betiana Simon.